You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food.

I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you're going out for one, that isn't the time to scrimp on calories or quality.

A steak needs fat to taste great.

Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.

I call all chefs cooks. They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.

Every chef should have an understanding of pastries or desserts.

I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I'd want to do is hit them with a pot.

I think the most effective way to run a kitchen is to teach, not to just yell.

In an ideal world for me, school lunch would be free for everybody.

Once you have your basics down, you can start breaking the rules.

I hate okra and grated mountain yam for the same reason. They're both slimy.

Treat yourself like someone who is amazingly special. You are special!

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.

An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization.

When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart.

When you try rescuing someone and discover they can't be reached, why would you ever throw that back in their face?

The psychic scars caused by believing that you are ugly leave a permanent mark on your personality.

I have a natural swagger.

If I were scared of rednecks, I would've moved on a long time ago. That's not a fear I struggle with.

I think Kurt Cobain and Nirvana represent this giant wave that came crashing in and turned music on its head again, and there's definitely something to be said for that.